Trump slaps 'hard-hitting' new sanctions on Iran over drone shootdown
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President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order imposing "hard-hitting" new sanctions on Iran in response to the downing of an unmanned U.S. drone last week."We will continue to increase pressure on Tehran, until the regime abandons its dangerous activities" including its nuclear ambitions, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office."Never can Iran have a nuclear weapon," the president said.Trump had announced over the weekend his plans to slap additional sanctions on Iran to deter the country from obtaining nuclear weapons. The U.S. already has sanctions on Iran's oil industry and other sectors.Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have grown since Trump pulled the U.S. out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal that had been brokered during the Obama administration. Some sanctions that had been lifted under that deal snapped back into effect after the U.S. pulled out. Those tensions ratcheted up in recent weeks, following attacks on two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz that…

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